The Prophecy: Uprising

The Prophecy: Uprising
Directed by	Joel Soisson
Written by	John Sullivan
Produced by	Ron Schmidt
Starring	John Light Kari Wührer Jason London Sean Pertwee
Edited by	Kirk Morri
Music by	Joseph LoDuca
Distributed by	Dimension Films
Release date	June 7, 2005
Running time	88 min
Language	English

The Prophecy: Uprising is a 2005 film starring Kari Wührer, John Light, and Jason London, and is the fourth film in the Prophecy film series. It was written by John Sullivan and directed by Joel Soisson with additional writing credits going to Gregory Widen for creating the characters. The film was the first in the series not to star Christopher Walken.

Plot

This movie is 4th in series and continues with the tale of war between angels. In the first war between the angels, Lucifer was cast out of heaven and became the creator of hell, he had some angels following him. Soon another war between angles started, this time there are two camps - one who hate humans (and call them monkeys) and want them to fall from God's grace and other who help humans.

The movie begins with the story of a woman named Allison (Wührer) who has come into possession of The Lexicon, a mysterious book of prophecies that writes itself. This book contains 23rd chapter of Bible, which is still not complete. The last chapter depicts the end of the war of angels. One of the angel fallen with Satan, Belial (now a demon) wants this book.

Allison finds a mysterious book from father who dies reading this book. Listening to the voices in her head that guides her thought out the movie, she takes the book for safe keeping. Belial is on his trail to find this book. While searching for Allison and the book, to avaoid detection, he keeps on murdering people and taking their form.

Satan (Light) seeks the help of a cop who had provided information to secret police about his parents. His parents and baby sister was brought to one of the secret police headquarters and tortured. His baby sister gets hurt during this and is given for adoption. She is Allison (Wührer). Satan brings the cop to the same house which witnessed inhumane tortures, making it his domain. Allison, with guidance of the voices in her head, reaches the same place, followed by Belial. It is the only place where Belial cannot hurt Allison. It is a place of evil, which makes it Satan area and he offered Allision and her brother protection.

Here, the cop confesses for his sins and seeks forgiveness but is rebucked by his sister. It is here that real motives are revealed. Belial who was loyal to Satan now wants to get some advantage from war of angels. He is frustated by the inertness of Satan and now wants an aggressive hell. Satan, who had initally opposed God for his love for humans, help human to fight Belial. He does not want another hell. As per him, only one hell is enough for the world. He helps the cop and Allison to kill Belial and then he takes absorbs Belial's soul.

The movie concludes at the dawn, when Satan tells Allison that for the present the war of angels is over, but will not be for long. Showing her glimpses of her future advises her to keep the book safe.

External links

• The Prophecy: Uprising at IMDb
• The Prophecy:Uprising at Rotten Tomatoes